The Frustrating World of Games

I just came across this video at Break.com, it sums up perfectly the utter frustration I felt at many games as a child, many was the time I would be reduced to a quivering, screaming, swearing ball of fury at my inability to jump onto some moving block in one of the Mario Bros games. The commentary is brilliant, and vastly more polite than I would have been. Enjoy.

Super Mario Brothers Is Frustrating pt2

Online Games - Part 2

As if the last batch wouldn't cause major losses of productivity here are a few more games worth at least 5 minutes "contemplation". Without further ado, onto the list:


The Adventures of Fancy Pants Man - Simple platformer along the lines of sonic the hedgehog, pretty cool looking.



Novel Concepts TD - Not sure what the real name of this one is, its really simple, you have to kill a horde of "creeps" using cannon, towers etc. It looks easy but is incredibly difficult to master, just check out the forum, there are actually loads of people in there discussing strategy ffs. Despite this I like it.


Word Shoot - Fancy some education while you kill the rampaging hordes? No me neither, but here you go anyway, basically you have to type words as fast as you can. The words corresponding to enemies approaching, if you get the word right you kill them. Improved my touch typing in about 3 minutes.

Addictive Online Games

Thanks to the wonder that is stumble upon I have been coming across more and more fun but distracting online games. Give them a try at your peril, they are a major time sink.

Virus 2 - Simple board like game where you have to make your virus take over the whole board.

Tetris - The Daddy of them all. Needs no introduction.

Puki - Kill a rampaging horde of what appears to be toddlers, using a laser gun. Strangely reminiscent of a "philosophical/hypothetical" question raised by CMB, "how many 5 year olds could you kill, if they kept coming at you and you had to?".

Matter - Simple block arranging pattern matching game. Think along the lines of the challenges on the Krypton Factor, if you know what that is. My best so far is 1080 (Update: 1131) points.

Dots - Connect dots to make squares, make more squares than the computer.